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We were stunned when every single child drew a rectangle, gridded in according to the number of rows and columns for the base of each ﬁgure, and then represented the prism’s height as a number in each square. They had recalled the top plan view representation from the previous year and used this with ease. They now had no diﬃculty understanding that the number of squares in each row and the number of rows in their grids represented the length and the width of the ﬁgure; and that the number in each square, which was the same for every square on the base represented the height, or the number of layers in each ﬁgure.

This took several minutes until Jason (pseudonym) was successful. He was charged with building more, using everyone else’s Soma ﬁgure sets. David immediately set about carefully creating a very large Soma ﬁgure #2, using Jason’s four completed Soma cubes (see Fig. 1). ” The children were excited about this problem, being a good extension from their developing multiplication skills. Those who struggled also had diﬃculty adding double-digit numbers ﬂuently and often counted on their ﬁngers, which is an indication that they may not have been ready for formal multiplication (Van Niekerk, personal communication, June, 2009).

One child produced a coding system similar to some of the 3rd graders’ (Fig. 6E). We shared two of the 3rd grade codes, Fig. 2 Extended Construction Box 35 Fig. 6 Fourth graders’ invented coding for ﬁgures with holes or overhangs to show the number of empty spaces, with the letters S (for spaces) or G (for gaps) shown in Fig. 6F. 3 Rectangular Prisms and Their Volumes During Year 2, ﬁve children who had attended during Year 1 returned to seek help with making sense of rectangular prisms. During their regular mathematics class they were expected to understand and use the Volume = length × width × height formula.